Re: [PATCH] gnome-vfs: Don't monitor read-only filesystems

[nf <nf2 scheinwelt at>]

> > How do we help them in the interim?
> 
> I think the best (and easiest) solution is more transparency. Inform the
> user which applications block a mount-point (a simple "lsof" frontend).

I have written a little prototype of such a tool ("wbumount" - who/what
is blocking umount?)

http://www.scheinwelt.at/~norbertf/wbumount/
(doc, sourcecode, screenshot)

... something like that could pop up instead of the goddamn "device
is busy" messages...

regards
norbert